New health insurance applications are being promoted by the Obama administration as a major step in improving access to the new health exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). And while we’re happy to see refinements to the original application, we’re left wondering if the administration could do even more. We applaud efforts [...]
Usability
Health Insurance Exchange Applications: We can do better
By Amy | May 17, 2013Design Thinking
By Huijuan Wu | March 13, 2013Design thinking puts an emphasis on empathy (which is why we love it so much!). When you start with empathy, you can gain insight to your user’s world. This unveils potential usability or design problems and lets you create a product with a great user experience. Design thinking is a problem-solving methodology for human-centered innovations, [...]
DHCX — A True Extravaganza
By Mary Ann Petti | February 25, 2013We’re back from this year’s Digital Health Communication Extravaganza (DHCX) in sunny Florida and we’re feeling excited, inspired, and ready to use what we’ve learned! DHCX is a great place for CommunicateHealth to mix and mingle — in person and on Twitter — with the digital health cream of the crop. Jay Bernhardt, the conference [...]
CommunicateHealth to Host First-Ever Health Literacy Hackathon!
By Mary Ann Petti | September 14, 2012On October 13 and 14, the inaugural CommunicateHealth Health Literacy Hackathon will challenge participants to create a technology-driven tool to improve how people understand and use health information. It could be an app, a website, an interactive online tool, a media campaign, or something else! Inspiration and examples will be provided. Participants will have 1 [...]
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